October 24, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Invast Securities' PurePrime adds liquidity from Citadel

Citadel Securities, an international market-maker across the equities, futures, options, treasuries, FX and swaps markets, has partnered with Japanese brokerage Invast Securities Co. Ltd. (TYO:8709), to become the newest liquidity provider available via the Invast Global multi-asset prime services facility, PurePrime. PurePrime now offers disclosed bank, non-bank and ECN liquidity with aggregation of more than 20 unique FX…

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October 24, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Plus500 sees strong Q3 with revenue up 14% YoY

CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has provided a trading update for the three and nine months ended 30 September 2016. In the nine months ended 30 September 2016, revenue was $236.3m an increase of 14% compared to the same period last year. However, strictly Q3 revenue compared to last year was slightly down 4% to…

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October 21, 2016 BY Mike Fox

NFA’s website affected by cyber attack

The National Futures Association (NFA) has reported cyber attacks on their website tonight. As reported earlier on LeapRate, there have been cyber attacks today affecting many popular websites on an internet infrastructure provider that hosts a number of these major websites. NFA relies on this internet infrastructure provider and its website has been affected by this attack.…

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October 21, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Playtech pays £16 million for bingo software and hardware solutions provider ECM

Continuing its acquisition spree outside of the Forex sector after having failed to acquire Plus500 and AvaTrade, gaming technology provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has announced that it has acquired bingo software and hardware solutions provider ECM Systems. ECM supplies software and support services to the UK retail bingo market, including major operators Gala Leisure, Mecca…

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October 21, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group and Thomson Reuters welcome Morgan Stanley as new LBMA Silver Price participant

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) and business information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) have announced that Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has joined the LBMA Silver Price as a new member. CME Group and Thomson Reuters operate the Silver Price. The financial services firm Morgan Stanley will be the seventh participant joining China Construction Bank, HSBC Bank…

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October 21, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fiserv clients achieve double-digit transaction growth with outsourcing of ACH Processing Utilizing PEP+

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, has announced that clients utilizing its ACH Processing Services have reported transaction volume growth of 12% to 14%, significantly higher than NACHA-member average of approximately four percent year over year. ACH Processing Services is a hosted (outsourced) version of PEP+(R), an online, real-time…

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